Eunhee Hong

Statement

My name is Eunhee Hong. I was born in Korea and studied graphic design. After I worked as a designer for a year, I went to London to do MFA painting course. Mainly I had done a design work of flat images on computer. However, after I knew the materiality of painting, I became to interest in different recognition of medium and experience of a space. Nowadays I work without limitation of the medium and do an experiment of painting on real space.

As I have met many people from other cultural background since I studied in the UK, I was more interested in social status of woman and woman’s right in Korea. I could not recognize easily about woman’s disadvantage from social suppression when I was in Korea. My work is related to how social pressure can get woman to be passive.

Now I am currently in Korea. However I want to have opportunities again to do research for social status of women having other social background and share my work with people from other country in Berlin. I think GlogauAIR have a good support for artists to focus on work, so I apply your residency.

GlogauAIR Project

My work starts from questioning about femininity of a woman especially in Korea. A woman’s life in Korea is still suppressed by society. Thus, a woman has objective perception as well as subjective perception of our own body. As experiencing the divided ego from the irony , woman wants to extricate from other’s judgement but ironically complete our identity with other’s view as well.

I did some projects of the self-portrait installations on the stage with artificial woman’s images learned by ideology of society. I divided a space by lines and did painting and installation on the divided space.

Up to now I focused on expressing the passive feminine gesture. I want to expand the horizon of the theme from new environment. I would do interview with women in Berlin having other cultural backgrounds and expand work more in terms of medium as well.

CV Summary

b. 1985, South Korea

Education

• University/College: UCL SLADE
• Degree/Diploma: MFA Painting
• University/College: Kookmin University
• Degree/Diploma: BA Visual Communication Design

Exhibitions or awards

• Solo Show 2016 : Three lies – Rainbow cube gallery
• Australian Independent Music Video Awards 2013 : Winner of Best Independent Music video -East Asia

Professional Experience

• Directing, Editing Music video
  Elephant Music Studio
  7, Seolleung-ro 145-gil, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea
  From 2011 To 2012
• Editing Video
  SANGWHA Company
  163-5, Samseong 1-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea
  2011

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